Human folly for 02025-11-15

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• La+Bite (context.reverso.net):

  examples of French word for “dick” are mostly #humor

• Rfc9002 (datatracker.ietf.org):

  #RFC 9002 defines the #QUIC protocol that Google wants to replace TCP with

• Strap rail (construction-physics.com):

  some early #USA #railroads used "strap rail": wooden rails with a strap of steel on top to provide hardness. “By 1840, it’s estimated that 2/3rds of the 3,000 miles of railway in the US was strap rail track. (...) In 1847, New York banned the use of strap rail for public railroads, and gave existing railways three years to convert to iron rails. After 1850, new commercial installation of strap rail was rare, and by 1860 most existing mileage had been replaced with solid iron rails.”

• Spec driven development waterfall strikes back (marmelab.com):

  spec-driven development #AI #toread

• 16Years (go.dev):

  16 years of #Golang

• Covile 834 reprint random font (ilcovile.it):

  #PDF of randomized #typography #visual-art

• Hoare Hints (web.eecs.umich.edu):

  #PDF of #Hoare paper from 01973 “Hints on Programming Language Design”

• Le Brun human animal hybrids (publicdomainreview.org):

  Charles Le Brun’s animal-human hybrids from 01806 #visual-art

• Browse (tomseditor.com):

  #MSX #retrocomputing #visual-art using the YJK+YAE screen-10 mode #YJK

• YJK (map.grauw.nl):

  #MSX #YJK mode with chroma subsampling

• Rfc6763 (datatracker.ietf.org):

  Apple’s #DNS #DNS-SD #RFC from 02013. #ZeroConf

• Copyfraud (en.wikipedia.org):

  #Copyfraud is abuse of #copyright

• Rfc508 (rfc-editor.org):

  #RFC 508 from 01973 on transmitting vocoded audio from the TX-2 over the #ARPANet #history

• (youtube.com):

  very nice one-handed QWERTY keyboard #video by HTX Studio. #keyboards